id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5580 Jonathan Edwards (theologian) - Wikipedia .html text/html 7733 808 65 Edwards delivered the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", a classic of early American literature, during another revival in 1741, following George Whitefield's tour of the Thirteen Colonies.[6] Edwards is well known for his many books, The End For Which God Created the World, The Life of David Brainerd, which inspired thousands of missionaries throughout the 19th century, and Religious Affections, which many Reformed Evangelicals still read today.[7] Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation shortly after beginning the presidency at the College of New Jersey (Princeton).[8] He was the grandfather of Aaron Burr,[1] the third United States vice president. Then 17, Sarah was from a storied New England clerical family: her father was James Pierpont (1659–1714), the head founder of Yale College, and her mother was the great-granddaughter of Thomas Hooker.[18] Sarah's spiritual devotion was without peer, and her relationship with God had long proved an inspiration to Edwards. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5580.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5580.txt